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k2o4 United States. Nov 17 2007 04:52. Posts 4803 | | |
Wow. This has been bad. I have finally felt the weight and depression of a painful downward spiral into self doubt. I worked very hard to avoid tilting and today especially... I would play about an hour then hit 3 horrible hands in a row and be ready to push every hand on every table, but instead quickly closed PS and went to hang out with my girlfriend till she got a smile back on my face. Then I'd head back to the computer and try again after clearing my mind and doing a few incantations reminding myself that I could beat NL25.
Despite all that I kept losing, and losing, and losing... So I had a couple drinks and decided to make a big change - Super tight, 12+ tables and very aggro. Amazingly it worked. I ended up 18 tabling for a bit (weird that I 18 tabled 6max and used to have trouble 12 tabling full ring) and winning 8 buyins! Didn't fully recoup me as I was down a total of 14 buyins, but it sure was nice. I experimented with the idea of overbetting the pot... always. Seriously. My continuation bets were always over the pot, and at the lowest they'd be pot sized. I actually did 1 continuation bet that was 1/2 the pot and someone saw it, tried to raise to steal and I reraised and stole it back with air. That was a nice one.
Anyway, I am not sure if I just got really lucky for a bit or if this is a good strategy. I played about 13% of my hands and raised like a maniac. I varied my PFR from 4x the big blind to 8x the big blind (open raising). I also 3bet a bit lighter and much larger than the pot when I did. Then I'd hit the flop with overpot continuation bets and I got people to lay down left and right. The beauty was that the few times people DID call, if I had air I'd easily get away from it, and if I had a hand I could easily get them all in. I also found that even though I was playing much tighter than normal, the people who were at the same table with me for about an hour started treating me like a complete maniac. Yes, I was betting huge, but I usually had pretty solid hands to do it with. I started getting people pushing with KTo and worse. It was nice.
I completely got away from the blind stealing game. If I had enough time amongst the 18 tables to notice someone was stealing like crazy vs me I'd open my 3bet range a bit, but overall I let it go. If I noticed I was in steal position vs a super nit then I'd open up light too. I'd check my BB nearly 100% of the time and check / fold. If I did hit I'd overbet the pot. Again, mostly people folded but when they did call, I had something and got paid off for it. Usually the odd 2pair that you get outta the BB.
Anyway, that's my story for tonight. After about a 6 day downswing, finally had a solid winning session. I think I will try the same strategy again tomorrow and see how it comes out. Here's some graph's and SS's to put some visuals on this experience:
Still having trouble figuring out the skalnsky stuff. It's not loading the same # of hands as PT says I played. Bah.
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if you are structurally overbetting the pot. being more agressive then normal and restealing flop raises with air while 16 tabling.... i think you are not helping your downswing this is going to cost (or already has cost) you even more money.
also being 12/10 at 6max is costing you money.
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k2o4 United States. Nov 17 2007 13:07. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On November 17 2007 06:33 piratematerial wrote:
if you are structurally overbetting the pot. being more agressive then normal and restealing flop raises with air while 16 tabling.... i think you are not helping your downswing this is going to cost (or already has cost) you even more money.
also being 12/10 at 6max is costing you money.
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I dunno, it's weird cause I really played my very standard tight game, with only 1 major change: overbetting the pot. If I would normally Cbet, I'd do it over the pot. If i'd normally bet, I'd do it over the pot. I barely bluffed. I think other than cbets with air (very standard) I only had about 3 or 4 hands where I did any sort of bluffing, and that was over the course of about 2,500 hands. Semi bluffed the same amount as I usually do with big draws. Took semi bluff raised in position a bit with ok draws vs weak leads and took free cards. I did tighten up my range a bit more so that it was similar to my full ring range. And instead of raising in the blinds vs limpers I checked a lot more often unless I had a really solid hand. I basically limited my agression to strong situaitons for me, and then went hog wild on the bet sizes. It lead to getting paid off on my good hands much more often than I used to get, and folding my good hands that went bad much more easily.
Anywho, I am not sure if I did well or just got super lucky. |
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k2o4 United States. Nov 17 2007 15:27. Posts 4803 | | |
well, did the same style as last night and took another 4 buyins to recoup my losses. not sure if I'm getting lucky or playing well. |
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NerO United States. Nov 18 2007 02:23. Posts 2402 | | |
brett ur a horrible short hand player but i <3 u |
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